Shrey Upadhyay

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Shrey Upadhyay

MS Student
Majoring in Quantum Science and Technology

Shrey Upadhyay is an R&D Engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles working in the quantum optimization of sensing hardware through the application of quantum algorithms via simulations. He holds a Master's degree in Quantum Science and Technology from UCLA, where he conducted research on developing novel techniques for quantum network optimization and error correction under the supervision of Prof. Enrique Lopez Droguett. During his Bachelor of Science in Physics, Shrey was a founding member and led a startup focused on quantum finance and portfolio optimization along with working on quantum error correction protocols and architectures.

Maryam Ghamarchehreh

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Maryam Ghamarchehreh

PhD Student
Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, working under the supervision of Dr. Enrique López Droguett. I hold an M.S. in Structural Mechanics from UCLA and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. My research at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences focuses on advancing methodologies to enable agencies to integrate quantitative risk assessment at both the project and network levels.

Sahil Dubey

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Sahil Dubey

MS Student
Majoring in Materials Science & Engineering

Sahil Dubey is a graduate student pursuing his masters in Materials Science & Engineering at UCLA. Currently, he is working in Dr. Ali Mosleh's group on the Hydrogen project where he is understanding how pipeline steels behave under the influence of hydrogen gas and developing simulation modeling to examine the fracture toughness and crack growth rate of the pipelines. Prior to UCLA, Sahil obtained his bachelor's degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU). During his time at ASU, he has used a fatigue growth machine, used many microscopes such as scanning electron microscope, laser confocal microscope, have done accelerated aging tests using heat drying oven, and learned molecular dynamics simulations such as VASP, LAMMPS, and Simulink. 

Devasmit Dutta

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Devasmit Dutta

MS Student
Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering

My name is Devasmit Dutta. I’ve completed my undergraduate in Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Bhubaneswar. Currently I’m a 2nd year Masters student at UCLA, in structural mechanics track in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. My research interests are finite element modeling and simulation applications for structural engineering and reliability systems. Also, I like to work on physics based and machine learning applications such as AI for wildfire simulation. 

Abhishek Salilkumar

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Abhishek Salilkumar
MS Student

Majoring in Materials Science and Engineering


Abhishek is graduate student at UCLA pursuing his Master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering. He is passionate about reliability engineering and risk analysis, with a particular interest in assessing and mitigating risks related to emerging technologies like hydrogen infrastructure. Having acquired his B.Tech degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, he currently works with Dr. Ali Mosleh's team on the "Pilot Testing and Assessment of Safety and Integrity of Targeted Hydrogen Blending in Gas Infrastructure for Decarbonization." During his undergrad, he worked on Additive Manufacturing, Process Optimization, as well as Modelling and Simulations.

Anna Cosmin-Spanoche

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Anna Cosmin-Spanoche
MS Student

Majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering


Anna Cosmin-Spanoche is a first year Master's student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. She obtained her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, with a minor in Statistics and Data Science, at UCLA this past spring. Her current research at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences (GIRS) focuses on human-system safety for heavy-duty automated vehicles. Her previous research at GIRS was in Human Reliability Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants, in a project with the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (J-NRA). She also has experience with safety and reliability in the aerospace industry, having interned twice at The Boeing Company, in their enterprise-wide Safety Management System group as a systems engineer. 

Mohammad Pishahang

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Mohammad Pishahang
PhD Student

Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering


Mohammad Pishahang is a PhD student of Civil Engineering at UCLA. He studied BSc and MSc of Mining Engineering at University of Tehran, and MSc of Mechanical Engineering at University of Chile. Mohammad's research is focused on natural hazards management. More specifically, his PhD thesis is on wildfire safe egress planning. During his spare time, Mohammad creates web applications, learns new programming libraries, and reads tech trends.

Gabriel San Martín Silva

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Gabriel San Martín Silva
PhD Student

Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering
M.S./B.S. University of Chile

Gabriel San Martín Silva is a Chilean Engineer, with a Bachelor and Master’s in Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Chile. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of PhD. Enrique López Droguett, at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

San Martín’s undergraduate and graduate research was primarily focused on the application of Deep Learning models and Probabilistic Graphical Models to prognosis and health management (PHM) problems, such as the identification of failure modes in ball-bearings and sea water pumps or the prediction of remaining useful life in turbo-fan machinery.

His current research interests lie on the application of state-of-the-art Quantum Computing and probabilistic Deep Learning models to real-world problems, with the objective of improving the safety and resilience of engineering systems and communities alike. In particular, his current research is based on applying Quantum Computing to inference problems, in order to decrease the time required to perform scenario simulation tasks.

Camila A. Correa Jullian

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Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. Student


M.S. University of Maryland
B.S. University of Chile

Camila A. Correa Jullian is an incoming Fall 2021 Mechanical Engineering PhD Student at UCLA. She obtained her Reliability Engineering MS degree from the University of Maryland in 2021, and her undergraduate Mechanical Engineering degree at the University of Chile in 2019. Her previous work has focused on modern tools for risk and reliability analysis of hydrogen fueling infrastructure and data-driven health monitoring applications in photovoltaic and thermal solar systems for diagnostic, prognostic and reinforcement learning-based operation scheduling decision-making activities.

Karthik Sankaran

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Karthik Sankaran
M.S. Student

B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology

Karthik is a Graduate Student in Materials Science & Engineering who completed his undergraduate education in Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research involves finding failure models for predicting the reliability of Composite Materials under the guidance of Professor Mosleh. His previous work includes Modelling and Simulation of Hydrogel Networks (Monash University, Melbourne), DFTB simulation of cement components (B.A.R.C., Mumbai), and Mechanical Testing of Farming Equipment to improve quality of materials in use (IIT Bombay).

Aidin Tamhidi

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Aidin Tamhidi
Ph.D. Student

M.S. Sharif University of Technology

Aidin Tamhidi is a PhD student in Structural and Earthquake Engineering at UCLA. He received his BS and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His current research is about Next-Generation Earthquake Field Data Measurements and their Use to Assess Earthquake Performance of Built Environment. He is conducting his research under the supervision of Professor Yousef Bozorgnia and Professor Ertugrul Taciroglu.

Minh Cao

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Minh Cao
Ph.D. Student

B.S. University of California, Los Angeles

Minh Cao is currently working as Programming Analyst and candidate M.S student in Bioengineering at UCLA. He is an expert in Signal processing, Android development and Cloud computing. His research interests mainly focus on applications of sensor networks and cloud computing in IoT mobile health care domain.